Video flashback: Fat Huckabee gorges on taxes

posted at 12:28 pm on November 12, 2007 by Allahpundit

Portrait of a man qualified to model for Leonard Nimoy. It’s Huck, back before he added health issues to his nanny-state repertoire and was still doing his part to wreck the rides at Disneyland. Aside from his shape, there are no surprises here: the man’s a devoutly religious Democrat, basically, so watching him beg for a tax hike isn’t exactly out of character.

As usual with these ancient oppo research clips, it’s the only video credited to the account of whoever uploaded it. Your exit question, then: Which camp is responsible for digging it up? I assumed (with no evidence) that it was Mitt’s, just because of the Dobson rumors that were floating around last week, but more than one campaign has been circulating it via e-mail this morning. Maybe they know something we don’t and are trying to get out in front of the news cycle? Hmmm.

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Don’t know and don’t care which campaign (if any) is behind it- it could just as easily come from the Club for Growth folks or other independant organization. As long as it’s not dishonest by taking quotes out of context and such, one’s record should be fair game for scrutiny. Between his big government philosophy and weakness on illegal immigration, Huck has some ‘splainin to do.

Huck, Huck, Huck, you just sunk your own ship…but then there are the Mitt supporters who believe that you can “re-invent yourself, that you can “grow” in political awareness, that what you believed in before you can denounce with impunity.
So, Huck will say, that was another time, taken out of context, that he is a “born again” conservative.

And the context of this is…? This is a meaningless video. Mike’s history of tax increases and tax cuts is public knowledge. This video provides no information what what is being discussed, why, and when. I could produce a video of someone pushing for a national sales tax of 23%, and it would sound dreadful if the context (abolish all income/capital gains taxes and the IRS) were missing!

Read my lips, Any new taxes. Jeesh tax & tax & tax don’t even think about cutting spending just TAX thats the answer. If everyone looks like a dem then there are less things to pick on us about. TAX TAX TAX thats OK with me just do it.

Huh. When have the social conservatives ever given Giuliani and Romney the benefit of context? Heck, people knock Romney for having the audacity to actually get elected and govern in a deeply blue state.

And yet when a video of the social con darling begging for tax cuts is unearthed, suddenly we hear the cries for context. That’s some rich, creamy nuance.

Even out of context, any politician who would make that claim, is not very smart.
Profound thanks for raising taxes?…no thanks, think I will look elsewhere for another leader. I can’t afford your gratitude.

His tax increases are a matter of record. Oh yeah, I forgot, his fee increases weren’t tax increases, they were just fees…

Anti-tax advocates are scrutinizing Mitt Romney’s (R) record as governor of Massachusetts and focusing on the fact that he increased fees in the state by $500 million and proposed nearly $400 million in business tax increases.

The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, published a fiscal-policy report card for 2006 that gave Romney a C grade, ranking him behind 11 other governors, including Democratic White House hopeful Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico.

Well if he is not a flip flopper, then he still believes in raising taxes.
Do you want the link with him backing down to Teddy, when Teddy called him a Reagan Republican? We see how much out of context that was. He buckled under the pressure, not reassuring for CINC. Mitt ran from Reagan (and conservatives) faster than Hillary when offered to debate Rudy. Please ask for it.

You never wonder why all the support for Romney is all about things from campaign speeches or TV ads and not his actual policies or performance?
Hollowpoint on November 12, 2007 at 1:08 PM

….says the person who, in other threads about Romney, totally ignores the fact that Romney had to try and veto hundreds of crazy liberal policies. Where are all the examples of the things he got wrong as govenor? Every one of the Mitt flip flops viral videos has been theoretical ideas from campaign speeches and questions.

Every one of the Mitt flip flops viral videos has been theoretical ideas from campaign speeches and questions.
Resolute on November 12, 2007 at 1:24 PM

As opposed to the theoretical ideas from his current campaign speeches and questions, which now apparently we’re supposed to accept without question? Was he just saying whatever was necessary to get elected then, or is he doing it now? Or both?

Simply defending every questionable aspect of his record- including past statements- can’t simply be written off by saying that he ran and governed in a liberal state; that excuse still doesn’t address how he’d govern as President.

Every one of the Mitt flip flops viral videos has been theoretical ideas from campaign speeches and questions.
Resolute on November 12, 2007 at 1:24 PM

So if he says them and they do not happen, then they are just theory from campaign speeches.
So if he tried to impose taxes, but he got voted down, he is not a tax raiser. And if he says this:

“That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA,” Romney told the Boston Herald in 1994.

Because of this:

In his 1994 US Senate run, Romney backed two gun-control measures strongly opposed by the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups: the Brady Bill, which imposed a five-day waiting period on gun sales, and a ban on certain assault weapons.

That is just a theory he is talking about? Mitt is a very theoretical guy…do you want a leader who leads by theory? A theoretical president…you are desperate.

You can balance every budget by raising taxes and fees. Nearly a billion dollars in tax and fee increases, any liberal can do that.
Bishop Mitt is the one that publicly backed away from Reagan conservative economics when questioned by Teddy. He retreated under pressure.
Take another look on who bailed out the Olympics, make it easy on yourself, just look at his current corporate campaign donors and leaders. They’re the same ones, which happen to be the same ones that he was a “consultant” for, and that hired his son. What a coincidence.